Java Developer
Due to growth, my hugely successful, global organisation are looking to recruit an experienced Java Developer to their expanding team.
In a nutshell:
We are looking for a strong Java developer experienced in cloud first development (we use GCP). You will be working in a Scrum Agile team alongside front-end, back-end devs, DBAs, dev-ops, QA and product owners building the companies next generation of scalable SaaS products using the latest architectural patterns and practices, development frameworks, cloud technologies and software delivery practices. We are looking for team players that are able to code solutions and have some familiarity with the latest patterns and practices.
What I need to do:
- Collaborate with your team to implement and deliver sustainable solutions following best practice methodologies
- Build back-end microservices written in Java to run on Google Cloud Platform
- Write code using a test-first/TDD/BDD approach maintaining a high level of automated test coverage
- Collaborate with DevOps in building a comprehensive set of CI/CD pipelines that allow the team to deliver features on a continual basis
- Apply coding best practices and help to evolve coding standards within the team and wider department
- Perform code reviews and work with the team to ensure work is delivered to a high level of quality
How will I succeed:
- You're passionate about engineering high quality and well thought through enterprise level solutions
- Able to implement high quality code and deliver on time and as per estimate
- Demonstrate good attention to detail with the majority of work tasks passing QA and reaching "Done" in 1-2 attempts
- Able to analyse and troubleshoot technical issues and provide options for solutions
- Demonstrate excellent personal organisation with the ability to prioritise and carry out multiple tasks
- Able to positively influence projects to meet key milestones and overcome challenges
- Able to work with the team to organise and ensure work is developed in the right sequence to enable successful delivery
- Able to work under own initiative
- Able to bring functional and technical solutions to the table to help solve team challenges
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Build positive and professional working relationships with your colleagues to help maintain a positive and collaborative team working environment.
- Demonstrate a positive can-do attitude
- A desire to keep abreast of technical and industry developments
- Hold a strong desire to grow as a software engineer becoming more skilled at writing high quality, efficient, maintainable and resilient software
What I need to know:
- Good java development skills using modern Java, Java frameworks and associated build and dependency management solutions
- Have a passion for adopting good on object-oriented design principles, best practices, patterns and clean code development
- Experience building container-based java solutions with REST APIs
- Experience (2+ years) building server-side applications
- Experience with some or all of the following: cloud based server-less technologies, message queues, caching technology, object storage solutions, data storage solutions (e.g. relational, NoSQL, graph), API gateways and container orchestration platforms such as Google Kubernetes Engine
- Proficient at writing TDD code with a high level of test automation preferably following a BDD approach
- Experience working in cross functional and self-organising Agile teams
- Experience with CI/CD, build tools and Git based source control such as BitBucket
- Experience with unix style shells and commands
If the above sounds like you, do note hesitate to apply now!
